Water-switch sluice



' Patented-Jan. l7, I899. C. A. DORRESTEIN.

WATER SWITCH SLUIOE.

(Application filed June 30, 1898.]

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Inventor Cfl Dorrestein v No. 6l7,927. Patented Ian. 17, I899,

12. A. DOBRESTEIN. WATER SWITCH SL UICE.

(Application file'd June 30, 1898.)

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, J! Z I I 5 1 5- I I 4! UNITED STATES PAT T OFFICE.

OORNELUS ADRIANUS DORRESTEIN, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

WATER-SWITCH SLUICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,927, dated January 1'7, 1899.

Application filed June 30, 1898.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CoRNELUs ADRIANUS- DORRESTEIN, a resident of New Orleans, in

the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to apparatus for drying and for irrigating land.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure -1 is a diagram. Fig. 2 is a plan of the dividinglevee and sluice. Fig. 3 is a sectional View of the pump. Fig. 4 shows a ball-bearing. Fig. 5 is a side view of the levee and sluice where they meet and the gate. Fig. 6 is a plan View, with a part broken away, of a beam and ball-bearing for the pump-shaft. Fig. 7 is a modified diagram. Figs. 8 and 9 are side views of modified gates. Suppose a farmer has a field divided into two parts or inclosures 1 2, one of which he wishes to furnish with water drawn from the other for irrigating or other purposes. The field is divided by a partition, which may consist of levee-sections 3 and an intermediate sluice or waterway 4, the entire field being surrounded by a levee 5, by which water can be confined in either inclosure. In Fig. 1 the gates 0r water-switches 6 7 are arranged to take water from inclosure 1 and to deliver it to inclosure 2, a rotary screw-pump 8 being located in the sluice for causing the water to flow when necessary. Said pump comprises a cylinder in which is a screw 9,

preferably of three turns, on shaft 9'. Means for driving the pump are indicated by the connecting-rods 10,.connected to cranks 11. The engine (not shown) to which rods 10 belong is any suitable reversible engine or motor. The shaft passes through a masonry wall 12 into well 13, in which the cranks revolve. This end of the shaft hasaball-bearing to take the end thrust of the shaft due to the action of the screw. A flange 14 is fixed to the shaft and plates 15 16, fixed in the wall and through which the shaft passes, and balls 17 between the flange and plates. (See Fig. 4.) At the other end of the shaft is another end ball-bearing, 18 being a circular flange Serial No. 684,877. (No model.)

on the shaft, 19 a metal plate fixed in the bearing-block 20, and 17 balls between parts 18 19. This end of the shaft 9 is preferably supported by a transverse beam 21. As shown in Fig. 6, the beam has holes 22 for rods or hog-chains 22, arranged along the pump-cylinder, being anchored at the ends in the wall 12 and beam 21. At each end of the pumpcylinder is a grate 23 to keep out weeds and floating objects.

a In the sluice at either side of the pump is agate 24. On the inlet side of the pump the gate is fastened open, as by a chain 25. The gate on the outlet side of the pump is closed, forming a chamber into which water is pumped, the gate being normally held closed by the back pressure, or by suitable means opens to let water through when the pressure rises in the chamber.

At one end of the sluice is a gate 6, pivoted at the center at the angle 27 of the end 28 of levee 3. One end of the gate lies against the levee, leaving the way open to the sluice. The other end of the gate spans the space between the levee and the end of the sluice, closing the opening on that side, whereby water will enter the sluice, as indicated by arrow (1. By turning the gate on its pivot the open and closed sides are reversed, this being done only when the pump is reversed or when the field to be drawn from and the field to be flooded are reversed.

29 are vertical rods located so as to form braces for the gates at about the center between the pivot and ends. To these rods are fixed horizontal arms 30, which brace against the posts at the end of the sluice, arms 30 being secured together at 31. When they cross, the braces are held firmly. At the opposite end of the sluice a like gate may be used, as in Fig. 1, or I may use a shorter gate 7, pivoted at 33 at the angle of the end of the levee. This gate swings just within the end of the sluice, and the current indicated by arrow 1) cannot push the gate open, 1

as might happen with a valve, such as shown at the left in Fig. 2, when used on the exit end of the sluice. In the position of the gate shown the sluice is open on the side indicated by the arrow b. By swinging the gate the open and closed sides are reversed, as at the opposite end and for the same purpose.

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When this reversal is made, door 24 is fastened back, as indicated in dotted lines, and door 24; is allowed to close.

In Fig. 6 beam 21 is shown in plan, a part being broken away. 34: is a bearing-block let into the beam, and 19 the plate, let into the beam for balls 17 to bear against. 35 is a plate bolted to the beam over the shaftbearing, as indicated.

By the means described the farmer can take water from field 1 to field 2 as needed and without waste and by the pump can raise it to the necessary level. Should it be required to draw water from field 2 to field 1, all that is necessary is to reverse the end gates, the gates at each end of the pump, and the engine.

I am aware that it is old to place Water motors, such as turbine wheels, in channels with gates on opposite sides of such motor to open and close communication at will with different inclosures, and this I do not claim, my invention being confined to apparatus employing a pump driven by a motor and not by current through the channel and practically adapted for use in drying and irrigating land, as hereinbefore described.

I claim 1. The combination, in a land drying and irrigating apparatus, with a sluice forming a partition between separate inclosures, of a gate at each end of the sluice arranged to connect the sluice with the inclosure on one side at each end and to disconnect the sluice from the inclosure on the opposite side at each end, and a pump in the sluice adapted to draw water from the inclosure on one side and discharge it at the other end of the sluice to a second inclosure.

2. The combination with a sluice forming a partition between two inclosures, of a gate at each end of the sluice arranged to connect the sluice with the inclosure on one side at each end and to disconnect the sluice from the inclosure on the opposite side at each end, the gates being arranged to open communication on opposite sides at opposite ends of the sluice, a pump in the sluice adaptedto draw water from the inclosure on one side and discharge it at the other end of the sluice to the second inclosure, and an automatic check'valve or gate in the sluice between the pump and the exit.

3. The combination, in a land drying and irrigating apparatus, with a sluice, a cylinder dividing the sluice, a water-forcing screw in said cylinder for forcing water from the sluice on one end of the cylinder to the sluice on the opposite end, and a motor for driving said screw.

4. The combination, in a land drying and irrigating apparatus, with a sluice, of a cylinder therein forming the communication between the sluice at one end of the cylinder and the sluice at the opposite end of the cylinder, a water-forcing screw in the cylinder, a shaft for the screw and ball-bearings to receive the end thrust on said shaft, and a motor for driving said screw.

5. The combination, with a wall or levee terminating in oppositely-inclined vertical planes, of a sluice extending from said levee, there being a short distance between the end of the levee and the end of the sluice, a gate pivoted at the center of the end of the levee and adapted when in one position to open the sluice on one side and close it on the opposite side, and when reversed to close it 011 the first side and open it on the second side.

6. The combination with a levee or wall terminating in a central angle, of a sluice in line with the wall, a gate pivoted at the center, the part of the gate on one side of the pivot closing communication on that side, the part of the gate on the other side of the pivot resting against the end of the wall and opening communication on that side.

7. The combination, with a sluice, of a screw-pump therein, rods arranged around the pump cylinder and anchored at their ends.

8. The combination, with a sluice, of a reversible screw-pump therein, a check-valve or gate on each side of the pump and means for holding said valve open on the inlet side of the pump.

9. The combination, of the sluice, ascrewpump therein, an inclosure 13 in the sluice through the wall of which the pump-shaft extends and means connected with the shaft within theinclosure for driving said shaft.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OORNELUS ADRIANUS DORRESTEIN.

\Vitnesses:

J ULES E. BRULATOER, PETER STIFFT. 

